United States or Israel ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The dawn was yet in its first gray dimness when we got into line along the little ridge which bounds that small dense brake on the northeastern side upon the southern side the hill rose almost inaccessibly in a succession of short limestone ledges westward the open woods, through which the hounds and footmen were approaching, sloped down in a long easy fall, into the deep secluded basin, filled with the densest and most thorny coverts, and in the summer time waist deep in water, and almost inaccessible, though now floored with a sheet of solid ice, firm as the rocks around it due northward was an open field, dividing the wolf-dingle from the mountain road by which we always travel.
Silencieux has risen again." "O Beatrice, Beatrice I would do anything in the world for you but I cannot live without her." From this moment Silencieux took possession of Antony as she had never taken it before. Never had he been so inaccessibly withdrawn into his fatal dream. Beatrice forgot her own bitter sorrow in her fear for him, so wrought was he with the fires that consumed him.
This continent was discovered and California was settled at the right time for the Sierra Nevadas to be seen in all their grandeur. Gold, and not scenery, was the object of their search. The great cañons were outside of the gold regions, and so inaccessibly situated that no one except the Indians looked upon them until 1851.
It seemed to Bensington at times that he must climb that vertical ladder for evermore. Above, the parapet was inaccessibly remote, a mile perhaps, below He did not care to think of things below. "Steady on!" cried the clerk, and gripped his ankle. It was quite horrible having his ankle gripped like that, and Mr.
They were the giants of the Tateyama range, standing there over against me inaccessibly superb. A pair of teahouses, rivals, crowned the summit of the pass, which, like most Japanese passes, was a mere knife-edge of earth.
The claims of literature were acknowledged, but without enthusiasm. A tall, glass-fronted cupboard, inaccessibly placed behind the elongated tail of an early grand piano, was filled with ornate miniature editions of the classics, that would have defied an effort had such ever been made to remove them from their shelves, whereon they had apparently been bedded in cement, like mosaic.
The palace of Cyrus could be seen in the distance a palace in which he had appointed that the future kings of Persia should pass at least some months of every year. It was a splendid building in the style of a fortress, and so inaccessibly placed that it had been fixed on as the royal treasure-house.
In the beginning, therefore, the creative spirit shows itself entirely lost in the Form, inaccessibly shut up, and even in its grandeur still harsh.
In this vicinity we miss the blue Harebell, the identical harebell of Ellen Douglas, which I remember waving its exquisite flowers along the banks of the Merrimack, and again at Brattleboro', below the cascade in the village, where it has climbed the precipitous sides of old buildings, and nods inaccessibly from their crevices, in that picturesque spot, looking down on the hurrying river.
M. de Grosjoyaux was of quite another complexion, and appeared to regard his friend's theological unction as the sign of an inaccessibly superior mind.
Word Of The Day